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1. Fair And Tender Ladies - Roseanne Cash
2. Pretty Saro - Iri DeMent
3. When Love Is New - Dolly Parton & Emmy Rossum
4. Barbara Allen - Emmy Rossum
5. Barbara Allen - Emmylou Harris
6. Moonshiner - Allison Moorer
7. Sounds Of Loneliness - Patty Loveless
8. All My Tears - Julie Miller
9. Wayfarin' Stranger - Maria McKee
10. Mary Of The Wild Moor - Sara Evans
11. Wind And Rain - Gillian Welch, David Rawlings & David Steele
12. The Cuckoo Bird - Deana Carter
13. Score Suite #1 - David Mansfield
14. Conversations With Death - Hazel Dickens, David Patrick Kelly & Bobby McMillen
15. Score Suite #2 - David Mansfield
16. Single Girl - Pat Carrolls

発売日：2001年5月8日(火)
レーベル：Vanguard Records

レビュー (Amazon)
Maybe they should have subtitled this album O Sister, Where Art Thou? Like the music from the Coen brothers' O Brother... movie, Songcatcher celebrates the emotional purity of mountain music, the acoustic balladry of the Appalachians--only this soundtrack features an all-female assemblage. Among the luminaries who shine the brightest: Rosanne Cash, who sets the tone with the album-opening "Fair and Tender Ladies"; Julie Miller, whose original "All My Tears" could pass as an old spiritual; Patty Loveless, who returns to her Kentucky roots with "Sounds of Loneliness"; and Gillian Welch, who leads an a cappella rendition of "Wind and Rain." Of the more familiar material, Emmylou Harris seems like she's coasting through the oft-revived "Barbara Allen" while Maria McKee sounds like she's singing for her life on "Wayfarin' Stranger." Yet the emphasis throughout is less on vocal virtuosity than on the stark simplicity of the songs, the album more impressive as an ensemble piece than a showcase for individual singers. --Don McLeese

1. Babes In The Woods - Almeda Riddle
2. Georgie - Doc Watson
3. The Coo Coo Bird - Hobart Smith
4. The Two Lovers - Almeda Riddle
5. Matty Groves - Doc Watson
6. Oh Death - Dock Boggs
7. Girl Of Constant Sorrow - Sarah Ogan Gunning
8. Winter's Night - Doc Watson
9. Black Jack Davey - Almeda Riddle
10. Wish I Was A Single Girl Again - Cousin Emmy
11. Leather Britches - Fiddlin' Arthur Smith
12. Will The Weaver - Almeda Riddle
13. Little Birdie - Roscoe Holcomb
14. Pretty Saro - Doc Watson
15. House Carpenter - Clarence Ashley
16. Come All Ye Fair And Tender Ladies - Maybelle Carter

発売日：2002年5月7日(火)
レーベル：Vanguard Records

レビュー (Amazon)
The first Songcatcher album contained both traditional Appalachian folk ballads and modern songs inspired by the movie of the same name and performed by contemporary female singers, including Iris DeMent, Julie Miller, and Emmylou Harris. The engaging Songcatcher II, however, is a step back in time. The album's 17 recordings date back to the early 1960s folk-music boom, when long-forgotten singers like Dock Boggs, Clarence Ashley, and Almeda Riddle were rediscovered by a new generation of music lovers. They sang ancient English and Scottish ballads that had been brought over to America and passed down through the ages, bleak songs about love, infidelity, God, and murder. Boggs, recorded live at the Newport Folk Festival, offers his bone-chilling version of "Oh Death"; Riddle, who lived her entire life in Greer's Ferry, Arkansas, sings the creepy "Babes in the Woods," in which two children get lost outdoors and die; Roscoe Holcomb, for whom the phrase "high, lonesome sound" was invented, is downright otherworldly as he accompanies himself on banjo on "Little Birdie." The four tracks by Doc Watson, including the lovely "Pretty Saro," come from his early Vanguard albums, which have long been accessible on compact disc, but most of these recordings haven't been available in years, if ever. Culled from Vanguard's extensive archives, they offer a tantalizing glimpse of the label's rich heritage. --David Hill